This impact is perfect timing for Auroral displays over North America tonight! These things can take awhile to build, so it might be a good idea to check outside every half hour or so to see if anythings up. Good luck!

Aw C´mon don´t wet your panties now. This is a normal M clas flare, not even an X class. Proton streams like this have no significant impact, I´ve been watching them since the normal flux started yesterday. Usually when an event of this nature occurs the account will stay up for about a day. I´m monitoring ground level flux on my scopes here right now. For thos that are interested in the current satelite levels go here;

The anticipated coronal mass ejection HAS ARRIVED. Impact with the Earth is expected anytime now. The IMF has turned northward with this event and therefore will (for the moment) not be capable of producing significant activity. However, a southward turning (negative Bz) is anticipated during this disturbance and should produce some decent auroral storm conditions. The disturbance arrived earlier than expected. It´s higher than anticipated velocity will increase the potential volatility of the disturbance.

Dr p. Because DimWits like you don´t even check the links a posted above to show you there is no excesive xray/radiation fluxes. Look for yourself, or is that to complicated. get a grip folks this is a normal event

LOS ANGELES - Solar flares are infamous for wreaking havoc on electrical power lines and communication signals. But a team of astronomers says such bursts emitted by the sun in its youth may have helped planets form.ADVERTISEMENT

Looking throughNASA´s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the astronomers focused on a cluster of young stars in the Orion Nebula, 1,500 light-years from Earth. Studying 30 sunlike stars over two weeks, they found the young stars erupted in flares more powerful than those produced by the sun.

The observation could explain how Earth survived during its formative years, astronomers said.

Half the stars in Orion showed evidence of disks, places where rocky planets might be formed. Recent studies have shown that when X-ray flares strike planet-forming disks, they interact with the disk and affect the position of a planet from a star. The astronomers theorized that energetic flares prevent developing planets from falling into the newborn star.

"Big X-ray flares could lead to planetary systems like ours where Earth is a safe distance from the sun," astronomer Eric Feigelson of Penn State University said Tuesday. "Stars with smaller flares, on the other hand, might end up with Earth-like planets plummeting into the star."

Details will appear in a future issue of The Astrophysical Journal.

Christopher McKee, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, said the data collected by the Chandra telescope is a "treasure trove" that will help scientists understand planetary formation.

"It shows that the early evolution of the sun might have had significant effect on how the solar system formed," said McKee, who was not involved in the project.

Minbari PC3 are an intersting phenemona, No one can actually explian why they happen. that they are is an extemely low frequency that eminates from the earth in various locations. I tracked the pc3 running continuous at the 8-10 level in that area for about a week after the sumatra earthquak in december. However pc3 occurances are extremely common during auroral events such as what we are having right now. Perfectly common, why the earth "sings" like this is anybodies guess.